Overlord Dragon Art

[The Mental System Martial Soul "Remnant Dream" has been detected. Absorb it?]

Absorb!

Yu Xiaogang silently repeated the words in his mind. The next moment, a stream of white air flew out of the pool of black liquid before him and merged into the panel.

Only Yu Xiaogang knew what had happened. Everyone else present was watching Tang San and hadn't noticed a thing.

After closing the System Panel, Yu Xiaogang looked toward Tang San. He saw him lift a skull from the pool of black water. The bone shimmered with iridescent light, and though it had been picked up from the black water, not a trace of grime clung to it. It looked like an exquisite work of art.

"It's a Head Soul Bone!"

Flender exclaimed, then looked at Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong.

The three exchanged glances. Once they understood one another, Yu Xiaogang spoke. "Xiao San, since you were the one who dealt the final blow to Shi Nian, this Soul Bone should belong to you. Put it away."

"But..."

Tang San had just begun to refuse when Liu Erlong and Flender immediately urged him to accept it. In the end, Tang San placed the Soul Bone in his Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.

The mission had been completed perfectly!

Yu Xiaogang silently celebrated, then followed the others toward Heaven Dou City.

As for the pool of black water, it was already slowly sinking into the ground. Before long, even this last trace would disappear from the world.

The tournament continued as usual. Shrek Academy fought its way through the competition, winning both the qualifiers and the promotion rounds and successfully advancing to the finals.

One thing worth mentioning was that, during the match between Shrek Academy and Thunder Academy, Yu Xiaogang saw another of his nephews, Yu Tianxin.

Though Yu Tianxin ultimately lost to Dai Mubai, Yu Xiaogang knew it was all because of the Miraculous Ear Sky-Piercing Chrysanthemum. A ten-thousand-year Immortal Medicine had already transformed Dai Mubai's White Tiger Martial Soul. Even though Yu Tianxin's Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul was among the very best in the clan, it still couldn't compare to the White Tiger Martial Soul after its transformation.

That was because the White Tiger Martial Soul now had the potential to become divine. More precisely, after being baptized by Immortal Medicines, all of the Shrek Seven Devils had gained the potential to become divine. Their natural talents now gave them an overwhelming advantage over their peers.

So Yu Xiaogang didn't feel disheartened. Instead, he saw hope for his family. In his generation, no one in the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan had the talent to support the clan's future.

Even though Yu Xiaolin, Yu Xiaogang's elder brother, had recently advanced to the Soul Douluo Realm, his talent would never be enough to reach the Titled Douluo Realm.

If even the most talented of them, Yu Xiaolin, was in that position, there was no need to mention the rest of their generation.

Without a Titled Douluo, the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan couldn't support itself. As one of the Upper Three Sects, how could it command respect without a Titled Douluo to hold down the fort? The clan had been facing a shortage of successors for more than twenty years, and the Clan Leader at the time, Yu Yuanzhen, had been troubled by it.

But among the younger generation now were two brothers, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin, known as the "Twin Stars of Blue Electric."

Yu Xiaogang had met them both, and in his view, either of them had the potential to become a Titled Douluo.

When that time came, the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan would have two Douluos and reach the peak of its power once more.

"It's a shame that even two Titled Douluos can't compare to the Clear Sky Sect."

At Shrek Academy, in his dormitory, Yu Xiaogang sat at his desk and couldn't help sighing.

The Clear Sky Sect had kept its doors shut and bided its time for years. Under pressure from Spirit Hall, everyone in the sect, from top to bottom, had devoted themselves to cultivation. All five of the old generation's Elders had advanced to the Titled Douluo Realm. It was truly enviable.

Yu Xiaogang couldn't help recalling how he'd asked Yu Xiaolin about the number of Titled Douluos in the clan that day in Sunset Forest.

"Comparisons really are infuriating. Those old fossils are full of lectures for other people, but they haven't made the slightest progress in their own cultivation."

Yu Xiaogang shook his head helplessly. He grumbled inwardly, but he also understood some of the reasons.

For Soul Masters in the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan, the concentration of Dragon Blood in their bodies was the measure that defined their entire lives, starting from the moment they awakened their Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul.

For instance, their first three Soul Rings had to come from Dragon Species or Sub-Dragon Species Soul Beasts. The requirement was meant to increase their Dragon Blood Concentration. Once their Soul Power reached level thirty, their bodies gradually began to undergo Dragon Transformation—a physical manifestation of the Dragon Blood Concentration within them.

The requirements for advancing to the Titled Douluo Realm even included having a Dragon Blood Concentration of ninety percent at the peak of the Soul Douluo Realm. That showed just how important Dragon Blood Concentration was to a Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Soul Master.

The only way the clan had to increase Dragon Blood Concentration was by absorbing Dragon Species or Sub-Dragon Species Soul Beasts, but that wasn't a long-term solution.

As Soul Beasts were gradually hunted down, Dragon Species and Sub-Dragon Species Soul Beasts had become increasingly rare. If nothing changed, the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan might never produce another Titled Douluo.

So, while they still had the means, they had to make a change.

When he was young, Yu Xiaogang had noticed the problem and wanted to combine the clan's inherited Dragon Devouring Art with his own research to create a new method of cultivation.

But the old fossils in the clan had branded the idea heretical, which had directly led to his being struck from the clan registry and expelled from the family.

Back then, Yu Xiaogang had indeed been inexperienced. But after years of accumulating knowledge and cultivating the Tang Sect's Secret Arts, along with the system's assistance, he had successfully cultivated the Dragon Devouring Art.

All this knowledge came together and sparked an idea in Yu Xiaogang's mind: he wanted to create a cultivation method truly suited to the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan. He would call it the Overlord Dragon Art.

This art would have the Dragon Devouring Art's ability to devour other bloodlines and convert them into Dragon Blood, while also incorporating the Mysterious Heaven Skill's smooth and steady qualities. Yu Xiaogang had taken what he needed from the two greatest cultivation arts and created something of his own.

At that moment, moonlight poured through the window and fell across the diagrams on the desk.

They all depicted the same human meridians and acupoints. Yu Xiaogang picked one up and began sketching on it with a pencil, his hand never stopping.

He ran through simulations in his mind as all the knowledge he had accumulated surged forth, being repeatedly trimmed and pieced together until it formed the information he needed.

Bathed in moonlight, Yu Xiaogang seemed to enter a wondrous state. It was as though some unseen force were guiding his hand, directing each line he drew.

A cultivation art destined to be passed down through the ages was born on that quiet night, in that secluded corner, from the hands of a Soul Ancestor with only level forty-one Soul Power.

The fate of the Blue Electric Tyrant Dragon Clan, too, continued to change at that very moment.